Pertussis Quotes

• So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

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  Bill Gates

  Mother   Children   Lying  

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

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  Paul A. Offit

  Children   Giving   Adults  

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

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  Anthony S. Fauci

  Children   Vaccines   Remember  

  "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are 'Almost Nonmeasurable'". "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2015.

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• If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

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  Paul A. Offit

  Going Away   Chance   Week  

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

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  Zbigniew Jaworowski

  Country   Immunization   Cost  

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